I’m an archaeologist deeply involved in quantitative archaeology. According to me there is a natural history of human societies, so I am quite interested by social sciences, statistics, pattern recognition and data visualization.

Curriculum Vitae

There is my CV

Archaeological researches

I have participate to various projects where a certain degree of formalism was expected to identify reccurent and significative patterns

Rock-art

My PhD (2012), published in the Mémoires de la Société Préhistorique Française (n° 63) (2017), was dedicated to the mont Bego rock-art (Alpes-Maritimes, France),

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The mont Bego site is one of the major concentration in Western Europe with near to 4,000 engraved rocks.

There’s 20,000 figurative engravings.

I started to develop the Bego app to allow the general public to prepare a visit to the site.

Anthropomorphic flint bladelets

Ibañez et al., published a comprehensive study of the context of PPNB flint bladelets found in Kharaysin (Jordania)in Antiquity (2020) question the anthropomorphism of these first societies of farmers.

Kharaysin bladelets, credits: Kharaysin project

Kharaysin bladelets, credits: Kharaysin project

The dataset was compared to Aïn Ghazal statues and busts (PPNB). A shape analysis of the , dated to , with a procustre analysis made on the whole contour (not only some landmarks) The shapes of the flint bladelets from Kharaysin mix together with the statues and busts from the near Aïn Ghazal site

Kharaysin bladelets, credits: Kharaysin project

Kharaysin bladelets, credits: Kharaysin project

IT development

I am used to programm in R and Python, also using markup languages (LaTeX, HTML, etc.), the GitHub platform, GIS and database. I am also familiar with network analysis, shape analysis and 3D/photogrammetry

Interactive web apps

I’ve developed 3 RShiny apps based on R and Leaflet:

name topic web.url app.url
EUROEVOL_R Radiocarbon mapping https://zoometh.github.io/C14/ https://neolithic.shinyapps.io/Euroevol_R/
NeoNet Radiocarbon mapping https://zoometh.github.io/C14/neonet https://neolithic.shinyapps.io/NeoNet/
Bego Rock-art mapping https://zoometh.github.io/bego/ None

The iconr R package

I am developping of a R package with Jose Pozo and Craig Alexander. This package has the working name of ‘decorr’ (soon: ‘iconr’). Its purpose is to:

  1. map an iconographical content with a relative neighborhood graphs (RNG) created in a GIS
  2. compare iconographical composition based on quantitative indices coming from Graph theory (degrees, betweeness, etc.) and spatial analysis (average heights, etc.)
common edges (in red) between two Late Bronze stelae